Theory of music & musicology

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

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To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought goods, travelogues and translations back from Persia. Around 1800, enthusiasm for the oriental …

Musik im Märchen

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Music moves us to dance, sometimes until we drop. It immerses us in other worlds, it overcomes boundaries, it arouses longings and desires which often set the development of a story in motion. The author has examined more than three …

Ein Liber cantus aus dem Veneto (um 1440) – A Veneto Liber cantus (c. 1440)

Fragmente in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München und der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien – Fragments in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

This book results from Robert Klugseder’s discovery of new fragments in Vienna (Fragm. 661) and Margaret Bent’s recognition that they belonged to the same original manuscript as a set of fragments in Munich (Mus. Ms. 3224, already known). Together they …

Mittelalter-Renaissance auf der Bühne

Wiederaufleben des mittelalterlichen Dramas und Theaters in der Neuzeit

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The study is devoted to tracing the reanimation of medieval drama and theatre in Germany in modern times. Based on a collection of more than 3000 documented performances the historical and theatrical developments are analysed critically

Formgeschichte der Sangspruchdichtung des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

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In spite of the widespread opinion that medieval poetry, and particularly song, is to a great extent a formal art, questions of form are often marginal in research concerning the surviving texts. By contrast, this book, based on decades of …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 19 (2012/2013): Oswald von Wolkenstein im Kontext der Liedkunst seiner Zeit

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The South Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1377-1445) is the most notable German lyricist of the late Middle Ages. The present volume contains 25 articles in total, which have been compiled from the presentations at a great conference held …